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by pxc
1269 days ago
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> The only real downside is the build time, as pkgsrc is more or less a managed federation of Makefiles. Installing software can take more time than would solutions based on binary packages, but it's totally worth it for the technical simplicity it brings to reproducible userlands. I always install Pkgsrc via Joyent's installers¹, and use `pkgin` to perform package installs. Most packagws thsn install from binaries. Seema to work pretty well! I still mostly stick to Nix, but I highly recommend Pkgsrc over Homebrew/Linuxbrew. It plays nice with other package managers and is generally well-behaved. Not a bad escape hatch for Nix if you feel like you need one. -- 1: https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/ |
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